The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne (album stream)

Dead Throne is the fourth studio album by American metal band The Devil Wears Prada. It was released on September 13, 2011 through Ferret Music.



History
Since The Devil Wears Prada have risen to such great fame, their classic approach of all band members sitting down and writing a record, hasn't been used collaboratively since Plagues, it is noted by guitarist Chris Rubey that about midway through the writing process of their third full-length With Roots Above and Branches Below, their song writing style and process changed drastically. Vocalist, Hranica commented on the album's lyrical theme is based upon anti-idolatry. He also said it's the "heaviest and most aggressive album to date."

Hranica speaks on the evolution of the band as a whole: "Our early material was dumb, plain and simple, and moving away from that, I think we've grown into smarter, more creative riffs, along with easier to follow songs. It's things like that that mark the evolution of TDWP." The album also features the absence of clean vocal passages on select songs, this is the first time The Devil Wears Prada has done this since Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord.

Dead Throne is also the longest album by The Devil Wears Prada to date, with their previous full-length, With Roots Above And Branches Below reaching 40:17.

Musical style and themes
Mike Hranica explained that Dead Throne did not need "to sound a certain way throughout." Rhythm guitarist, Jeremy DePoyster's singing (clean vocal) style is still contrasted with a wide array of screamed vocals, which are a lot more abundant than clean singing. Lead guitarist and primary songwriter, Chris Rubey stated that the musical direction of the album on the Zombie EP was heavier, more sinister, and zombie-like. "Those songs were written pretty much solely by me on my computer and that’s why they sound different. For Dead Throne we wanted to do that and obviously bring in some of the other elements people liked in Plagues.

While Zombie was centrally themed lyrically and musically around a specific topic, Dead Throne conveys a central message with common themes "revolving around idols." Hranica expands when asked about his lyrical themes, which have always been very abstract and metaphorical in order to draw out different meanings depending on the interpreter:

“ The record is mostly based on idolatry. There's a lot of different lyrical content. It's not a concept record, but a lot of it has to do with anti-idolatry... it's the idea of putting up our idols, heroes, and entities we worship onto a figurative throne. Those things won't stay up there, and they're not meant to be up there. That idea behind Dead Throne is making kings out of things that shouldn't be kings. "

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